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Harmon Caldwell Drew (February 16, 1889 – September 1, 1950) was a lawyer from Minden, Louisiana, who served prior to 1945 as the district attorney of Bossier and Webster parishes and then as a judge of both the district and the state appeal courts. His political career ended with his defeat by future Governor Robert F. Kennon. Drew's grandson, Harmon Drew, Jr., of Minden is a sitting judge on the Second Circuit Court of Appeal, based in Shreveport. ==Background== Harmon C. Drew was born in Minden to Richard Cleveland Drew, also a judge of the district and circuit courts, and the former Katie Caldwell (1859–1936). His paternal grandfather was Richard Maxwell Drew, a district judge and state representative. In 1818, R. M. Drew's father, Newett Drew, founded the Overton community, the first settlement in Webster Parish.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Drew Family )〕 In 1913, Drew married the former Annie Lucile Grigsby (March 25, 1896– August 10, 1974). The couple had two children, R. Harmon Drew, Sr., an attorney, Minden city judge, and a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and Katie Elizabeth Drew Carey (1915–1971), a Minden Realtor, married to and later divorced from Harvey Locke Carey,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Social Security Death Index )〕〔"Memorial Services for Judge H. Drew Conducted Thursday", ''Minden Herald'', September 22, 1950, pp. 1-2〕 the short-term U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana in Shreveport, appointed in 1950 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to succeed Malcolm Lafargue, who stepped down to run for the United States Senate against the then two-year incumbent Russell B. Long, older of the two sons of Huey Long. In 1960, Carey was an unsuccessful candidate for a district judgeship in the Democratic primary, having lost to O. E. Price.〔"Humphrey, McClendon, Price Nominated", ''Minden Press'', July 25, 1960, p. 1〕 Carey had also run unsuccessfully in 1948 against the Democratic U.S. Representative Overton Brooks for Louisiana's 4th congressional district. H. C. Drew was an early graduate, probably 1906, of Minden High School, formerly known as the Minden Male Academy. In 1910, he graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where he was a member of an undefeated football team. He was the starting left guard on the 1909 LSU Tigers team.〔Louisiana State University Tigers, 1909 team roster〕 He was an inductee of the national honor society Phi Kappa Phi.〔''Minden Herald'', June 5, 1930, p. 1〕 At first, Drew, a physically large man who commonly wore suspenders, practiced law in Minden with his father, whose circuit judgeship had ended in 1913.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harmon Caldwell Drew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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